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Title Page

1

Hebrew Articles

Foreword

History

The history of the Jews in Wloclawek until the First World War *

Yeshaya Trunk

1

The Community during the years 1900-1939

Meir Kojan

27

Rabbis-Leaders

The Rav Yosef Chaim Kara

Prof' Efraim A. Auerbach

133

The Rav R'Yehuda Leib Kowalski zl *

Rav Ch. P. Tchorsh

143

Parties

The Zionist Organization *

Yehuda Greenboim

177

The Mizrahi

Rav Ch. P. Tchorsh

199

HAZHR [The revisionist Zionists and the Beitar Movement]

Eliyahu Amikam (Kashak)

207

Agudat Israel and Young Agudat Israel

Fishel Flechser

217

The Jewish Workers' Party Bund (1900-1920) *

M. D. Alter

267

The Bund between the Two Wars (1920-1939) *

Chaim Tabatchnik

273

The Poalei Zion in Wloclawek

Dov Shachari

275

The Youth Movements

Hechalutz

The beginnings of the movement

S. Cohen, D. Frida

301

The renewed organization

A. Ungar

303

Until the Holocaust

D. Shachari

307

Hashomer Hatzair

David Dori (Dorfman)

313

Tzeirei Hamizrahi [Young Mizrahi] and Hechalutz Hamizrahi

Rav Ch. P. Tcorsh

345

Hanoar Hatzioni [The Zionist Youth]

David Rubinstein

349

Yosef Shovinski

Hanna Kava

353

Dr. Avraham Leib Fuchs

Moshe Kol

355

The Zionist Movement (fragments)

359

Education and Culture

Three letters from Shalom Aleichem to Meir Arenstein

379

The Jewish Gymnasium [High School]

Meir Kozhan

381

Yonathan Sharoni (Matok)

Prof' Efraim A. Auerbach

405

The Jewish Stage (A bundle of memories)

Mordechai Efraim Shemel

447

The Yiddishe Bine [the Jewish Stage] and the surrounding towns

Chanoch Konfdark (Ben Shalom)

453

Sport Associations

Dov Shachari

483

The Religious Life

The religious way of life in Wloclawek

Rav Ch. P. Tchorsh

497

The struggle for the Rabbinate

Rav Ch. P. Tchorsh

499

A place of Torah Study

Moshe Meged

501

The Yeshiva in Wloclawek

Yehuda L. Greenboim

505

The Novorodok Yeshiva in Wloclawek

Chanoch Flexer

511

The Sochaczew Hasidim House

Efraim A. Auerbach

513

The Destrikow Hasidim House

David Rubinstein

515

The Hevrat Tanach [Bible Society]

Dov Shachari

517

The history of the Hazanim, [cantors] in Wloclawek

S. Geshuri

521

The Rav R'Yakov ben Yitzhak Aizik Ungar

Arie L. Ungar

531

Our Master and Teacher Rav R'Alexander-Sender Gedaliahu Tchorsh

Rav Ch. P. Tchorsh

535

Rav Shlomo David Posner (Bzheshkowski)

Autobiography

541

Shalom Mordechai Rubinstein SHOV [slaughterer] in Wloclawek

M. Y.

543

My brother Yakov Leib Tchorsh

Rav Ch. P. Tchorsh

544

R'Yakov Zelig Karo

Rav Ch. P. Tchorsh

545

The Scribe [Sofer Stam] from Wloclawek

Yosef Avni (Silberstein)

546

Sayings from the mouth of Rav Y. L. Kovalski

Yakov Gur-Eli

547

R'Sender Tchorsh - his sayings

Rav Ch. P. Tchorsh

551

The Economic Life

The Jewish Craftsmen's Association

Dov Shachari

591

The map of Wloclawek and its Jewish institutions *

Eng. Binyamin Meirtchek

609

Welfare Institutions

Welfare and medical-aid institutions in our town

Dov Shachari

611

Memories

The Rabbi's Home

Ch. M. Rothblatt

649

The personality of out Rav

Ch. M. Rothblatt

651

Shalom Ash

Chaim Z. Nafcha

653

Dr. A. L. Fuchs, the community worker and the era

Yitzhak Greenboim

657

Dr. A. L. Fuchs

Dr. Moshe Strach

663

Memories from my home

Miriam Achituv-Fuchs

665

The Surrounding Towns

KOVAL [Kowal]

Koval Dekoy

Arie Leib Pichotka

765

Yosef Dobrezhinski

Nachum Sokolov

771

Figures in Koval

Arie Leib Pichotka

771

In memory of R'Yitzhak Posner and his family

Dr. Chaim Posner

773

R'Yitzhak-Menachem Shimsha

Rav Ch. P. Tchorsh

775

LUBRANC [Lubraniec]

Figures in Lubranc

Moshe Printz

793

NYESHAWA [Nieszawa]

Neyshawa and its Jews

Rivka (Regina) Strauss (Kaplan)

797

Israel Yehuda Kaplan

Rivka Strauss

800

CHIECHOTCHINEK [Ciechocinek]

Figures in Chiechotchinek

Moshe Assisi

809

ALEXANDROV [Aleksandrów Kujawski] and DOBZHIN [Dobrzyń nad Wisłą] on the banks of the Vistula

Dov Shachari

817

The Holocaust

The destruction of the Jewish settlement in Wloclawek

Moshe Lishak

833

In the Ghettos

In the Warsaw Ghetto

Meir Kojan

891

In the Lodz Ghetto

From the diary of David Shirakowski

897

In the Zamosc Ghetto

897

In the Tarnow Ghetto

Orna Blauner-Glick

899

In the Camps and in the Resistance Movements

The legend of the Wloclawek martyrs

P. Flaxer

913

Tusia Altman

Dr. Israel M. Biederman

933

Tusia

A. Sharoni (Matok)

949

Mira Izbitzka

Miriam Fuchs-Achituv

951

Avraham Smidt

953

Moshe Posner

Dr. Chaim Posner

955

Nashia Zuker

Menachem Ravitzki

957

In Memory of Relatives and Friends

961

Yiddish Articles

Foreword

History

The history of the Jews in Wloclawek until the First World War (1802-1914) *